Publius Vinicius was a Roman senator active during the reigns of Emperors Augustus and Tiberius. He was the son of Marcus Vinicius, consul in 19 BC.Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 426
Vinicius was ordinary consul in AD 2 with Publius Alfenus Varus, and was an imperial legate for Macedonia and Thracia. There he commanded a legion as military tribune under Lucius Calpurnius Piso.Syme, Aristocracy, p. 289Velleius Paterculus, The Roman History, II.101.3 Several years after his consulate, Vinicius was proconsular governor of Asia at some point between AD 10 and 15, but probably in AD 10/11.K. M. T. Atkinson, "The Governors of the Province Asia in the Reign of Augustus", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 7 (1958), pp. 329f
His son Marcus Vinicius was consul in AD 30 and a second time in the year 45.Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani. part 3, (1987) Berlin. pp. 436-437.
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